Top 10 Most Googled Recipes of 2025

The viral cottage cheese flatbread — blended cottage cheese baked into a high-protein bread substitute — became one of 2025's most searched recipes after dominating TikTok food content. With 40+ grams of protein per serving and only 3 ingredients (cottage cheese, eggs, optional seasoning), it aligns perfectly with high-protein diet trends. Millions of home cooks adapted it for sandwiches and wraps.

The smash burger technique — pressing thin beef patties onto a ripping-hot cast iron surface to create maximum Maillard crust — became the defining home burger method of 2025. Inspired by chains like Shake Shack, Smashburger, and the UK's Patty & Bun, home cooks searched for smash burger recipes millions of times monthly. The technique produces restaurant-quality results with minimal equipment.

Marry Me Chicken — creamy sun-dried tomato and herb chicken in a parmesan sauce — went viral in 2024 and remained a top recipe search throughout 2025. The dish's name reflects its crowd-pleasing decadence and ease of preparation. Variations including Marry Me Pasta and Marry Me Salmon spawned an entire recipe category, collectively generating hundreds of millions of social media impressions.

Sourdough's pandemic-era popularity never truly faded, with starter cultures becoming prized household possessions passed between friends and family. In 2025, the artisan sourdough movement deepened with searches for specific techniques like high-hydration dough, cold retard fermentation, and scoring patterns. The global sourdough starter community on Reddit exceeded 600,000 members.

This Middle Eastern and North African dish of poached eggs in spiced tomato sauce went from restaurant brunch staple to global home-cooking phenomenon. High-protein, vegetarian-friendly, and infinitely adaptable with feta, spinach, or chorizo additions, shakshuka searches grew 45% in 2025. It represents the broader trend toward globally influenced breakfast and brunch culture.

The baked feta pasta trend — originating in Finland and going global via TikTok in 2021 — continued driving recipe searches in 2025 as home cooks discovered it years later. Roasting a block of feta with cherry tomatoes and olive oil creates an instant creamy sauce requiring no cooking skill. It triggered a feta shortage in multiple countries at peak virality.

Cilbir — poached eggs served over whipped garlic yogurt and topped with chili butter — became brunch's breakout dish of 2025. The 500-year-old Ottoman recipe found new global audiences via food media, combining the accessibility of eggs with restaurant-level flavor complexity. Searches increased 280% in 2024 as chefs and home cooks alike adopted it as their go-to impressive-but-easy brunch dish.

Multiple cucumber salad variations went viral on TikTok in 2024-2025 — from the Korean-inspired gochujang cucumber salad to the smashed cucumber salad with sesame and chili oil. The humble cucumber became 2025's most unexpectedly versatile ingredient, with millions of creators sharing their takes on what became the default Gen Z summer side dish.

The carnivore diet and ancestral nutrition movement drove a revival of beef tallow cooking in 2025. French fries cooked in beef tallow — the traditional pre-1990 method abandoned when McDonald's switched to vegetable oil — became a viral recipe trend, with claims that tallow fries taste dramatically superior. Sales of beef tallow on Amazon grew 400% in 2024.

The viral cottage cheese flatbread — blended cottage cheese baked into a high-protein bread substitute — became one of 2025's most searched recipes after dominating TikTok food content. With 40+ grams of protein per serving and only 3 ingredients (cottage cheese, eggs, optional seasoning), it aligns perfectly with high-protein diet trends. Millions of home cooks adapted it for sandwiches and wraps.

The smash burger technique — pressing thin beef patties onto a ripping-hot cast iron surface to create maximum Maillard crust — became the defining home burger method of 2025. Inspired by chains like Shake Shack, Smashburger, and the UK's Patty & Bun, home cooks searched for smash burger recipes millions of times monthly. The technique produces restaurant-quality results with minimal equipment.

Marry Me Chicken — creamy sun-dried tomato and herb chicken in a parmesan sauce — went viral in 2024 and remained a top recipe search throughout 2025. The dish's name reflects its crowd-pleasing decadence and ease of preparation. Variations including Marry Me Pasta and Marry Me Salmon spawned an entire recipe category, collectively generating hundreds of millions of social media impressions.

Sourdough's pandemic-era popularity never truly faded, with starter cultures becoming prized household possessions passed between friends and family. In 2025, the artisan sourdough movement deepened with searches for specific techniques like high-hydration dough, cold retard fermentation, and scoring patterns. The global sourdough starter community on Reddit exceeded 600,000 members.

This Middle Eastern and North African dish of poached eggs in spiced tomato sauce went from restaurant brunch staple to global home-cooking phenomenon. High-protein, vegetarian-friendly, and infinitely adaptable with feta, spinach, or chorizo additions, shakshuka searches grew 45% in 2025. It represents the broader trend toward globally influenced breakfast and brunch culture.

The baked feta pasta trend — originating in Finland and going global via TikTok in 2021 — continued driving recipe searches in 2025 as home cooks discovered it years later. Roasting a block of feta with cherry tomatoes and olive oil creates an instant creamy sauce requiring no cooking skill. It triggered a feta shortage in multiple countries at peak virality.

Cilbir — poached eggs served over whipped garlic yogurt and topped with chili butter — became brunch's breakout dish of 2025. The 500-year-old Ottoman recipe found new global audiences via food media, combining the accessibility of eggs with restaurant-level flavor complexity. Searches increased 280% in 2024 as chefs and home cooks alike adopted it as their go-to impressive-but-easy brunch dish.

Multiple cucumber salad variations went viral on TikTok in 2024-2025 — from the Korean-inspired gochujang cucumber salad to the smashed cucumber salad with sesame and chili oil. The humble cucumber became 2025's most unexpectedly versatile ingredient, with millions of creators sharing their takes on what became the default Gen Z summer side dish.

The carnivore diet and ancestral nutrition movement drove a revival of beef tallow cooking in 2025. French fries cooked in beef tallow — the traditional pre-1990 method abandoned when McDonald's switched to vegetable oil — became a viral recipe trend, with claims that tallow fries taste dramatically superior. Sales of beef tallow on Amazon grew 400% in 2024.